Caravaggio is similar in color and extensive shadowing to the other two pieces being discussed. They all seem kind of haunting to me‚ not a victorious looking celebration as some of the statues portray. Donatello David 1430-1440 Bronze 158 cm Bargello Donatello’s David is unlike Michelangelo’s statue in
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the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” He was the man that made the future of OUR country better. Thomas Jefferson was the president in 1801-1809. He was very important so he has a memorial in Washington DC. A memorial is a statue or something that pays homage to a person. In this case this memorial pays homage or respect to Thomas Jefferson. He was optimistic‚ hard worker‚ intelligent‚ creative‚ and calm. He did the most to help out. Thomas Jefferson was a really hard working
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other artists of his time‚ he was believed to be a homosexual. At the age of seventeen he became an apprentice to renowned sculptor of Lorenzo Ghiberti. In Ghiberti’s studio Donatello learned new bronze techniques. He became as master of the medium by assisting Ghiberti in constructing and decorating the bronze doors the San Giovanni baptistery in Florence. In 1407 he left Ghiberti to work on the Cathedral in Florence. Later that year he received two important commissions; the life-sized marble David
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Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena‚ Ca. offers a whole level devoted to Asian Art‚ which is why I decided to go to this Museum. I chose the Bronze statue of Shiva as Nataraja or Lord of the Dance. We studied this in class‚ and I was taken with it then‚ and even more so in person. The statue is from India: Tamil Nadu‚ c. 1000. The statue is a form of Shiva‚ with four arms and a raised leg‚ standing over a dwarf‚ with different objects in his hands or forming meaningful hand gestures‚ and flowing hair
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Donatello was a forerunner of humanistic expression and worked towards creating a system of perspective Donatello produced sculptures in marble‚ bronze‚ terracotta and wood Donatello was one of the first Renaissance artists interested in the Classical art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome and became the first artist of the Renaissance to create a nude statue Donatello invented a technique known as schiacciato‚ or shallow relief‚ which achieved effects of spatial depth Donatello Art and Statuary
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into three distinct classes. At the top of the list‚ he places the guardians who have gold souls and who are considered the elites; below the guardians rest the auxiliaries who have silver souls; and below everyone else‚ lay the moneymakers who have bronze souls. The classifications that Socrates offers are reliant on everyone in the city doing the job or position that they are best suited to do in order for the city‚ as a whole‚ to prosper. According to Socrates and his
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balance. The sculptures were amazing and the architecture had to tell a story. In the classical period the statues in Greece became more natural. Instead of statues of gods there were statues of real people doing everyday things. The kouros statue‚ which means boy in Greek‚ was one of the earliest statues. It was from the archaic period. It had long stylized‚ detailed hair‚ and the statue was naked. The kouros was usually carved from marble. The female counterpart to the kouros was kore which
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and beauty. Kouros is a life-sized sculpture and hands clenched at the sides and one foot slightly forward. In contrast‚ Aphrodite is given larger than real-life scale. The Terracotta Statue of the Diadoumenos is a copy of a Greek bronze statue of 430 B.C. by Polykleitos. The pose of the famous statue of the Diadoumenos by Polykleitos is recognizable in this statuette‚ but the slender‚ graceful forms conform to Late Hellenistic period. Beginning with the early Classical period‚ Polykleitos
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Our society considers the work of Thomas Aquinas as early philosophy. However‚ his arguments and themes in one of his best known body of works‚ Summa Theologiae‚ draw heavily from that of former philosophical giants—ones such as Aristotle or Augustine. On that note‚ one of Augustine major accomplishments included defining mind-body dualism and materialism—an important distinction in philosophy. According to Augustine‚ Materialists believe that the mind exists as a part somewhere in the body; whereas
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two works of ancient art‚ the statue of Zeus and the statue of the Good Shepherd. Both statues are beautiful examples of the ideal image of their times. The first piece of art that I analyzed is the statue of Zeus. The larger than life bronze statue was created around 460BC that depicts the early religious beliefs in Gods. The statue of bronze differed from ones that came before it because it was not made of the normal marble that was used on most statues. The statue of Zeus couldn’t be made out
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